generic

Species

...otle used the words genus and species to mean generic and specific categories. Aristotle and other pre-Darwinian scientists took the species to be distinct and unchanging, with an " essence ", like the chemical elements . When early observers began to develop systems of organization for living things...

Lung

...oon' Also, long (龍), not lung, is the generic Chinese name for a dragon ....

Louis Pasteur

...teur gave these artificially weakened diseases the generic name of vaccines , to honour Jenner's discovery. Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and then weakening it by drying the affected nerve tissue. This vaccine was first used on 9-year old Joseph Meister ...

Human

...he Old English word man could also have this generic meaning, as demonstrated by such compounds as wifman (“female person”) → wiman → woman . For the etymology of man see mannaz . Biology A human skeleton Birth and death The life of the individual b...

Drug

...he cost. When the patent for a drug runs out, a generic drug (some known as simply a "generic") is usually synthesized and released by competing companies, causing the price to drop markedly. Drugs which don't require prescription by a medical professional are known as over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and ca...

Diffusion

...dient or thermal gradient or electric field). The generic diffusion equation is time dependent (i.e. also applies to non-steady-state situations). In each case, there is only a noticeable diffusion if there is a gradient : for example in thermal diffusion, if the temperature is constant, heat will move ...